Burton US Open at Vail

It’s that time of year again, it’s time for the annual Burton US Open. After residing at Stratton Mountain for what seams like forever, the Burton US Open, which is part of the Burton Global Open Series, has moved to Vail for 2013.

Kicker Project

The Kicker Project, a nonprofit youth development outreach program that provides means to assist underprivileged youth’s engagement in board sports, is hosting an art show at the Chowgirls Parlor in N.E. Minneapolis on 2/22/2013.

Next time you think about throwing a snowball at your friends make sure to put the safety gate down!

A 17-year-old Albuquerque teen who fell about 45 feet from a ski-lift chair onto steep, snowy terrain at Ski Santa Fe a few weeks ago is reportedly OK.

“Basically, the kid is home and he is fine,” said Cody Sheppard, the ski patrol director at Ski Santa Fe. “It was kind of a dramatic deal. I guess he was attempting to throw a snowball to the chair in front of him, where some friends were, and when he threw the snowball, the momentum just carried him out of the chair. ” [Santa Fe New Mexican]

What Nordica‘s Sverre Liliequist did at the Swatch Skiers Cup doesn’t happen everyday. Hell, it’s probably has never happened ever before and will never happen again. If Sverre would have been eaten up by the slide at least he would have gone out in style.